Leslie Scism and Mark Maremont report: Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity. Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health—a costly process. Today, however, data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping…
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Ron Paul Introduces H.R. 6416: The American Traveller Dignity Act
The text of Rep. Ron Paul’s statement in Congress: Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the videos of terrified children being grabbed and probed by airport screeners. We have read the stories…
One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans
At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot…
EPIC Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case on “Personal Privacy”
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief in a case concerning the meaning of “personal privacy.” EPIC urged the Justices to reject AT&T’s claim that its “personal privacy” prevents the public disclosure of records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. EPIC cited the commonly understood meaning of “personal privacy” in the…